Conference: Solidarity and Migration

The motivating theme of the conference is the broad question of the factors that enhance or dissipate solidarity in situations of migration. We are interested in how government policies and practices affect the willingness and ability of local communities to offer solidarity toward migrants.

Schedule

Confirmed speakers listed—more details to come.

8:30am–9:00am / Registration

9:00am–9:40am / Opening Framing

9:40am–10:00am / Short documentary film presentation

• Disha Ganjegunte, Masters of Global Health and Population Program, Harvard Chan School of Public Health.

10:00am–11:30am / Panel 1: Solidarity as Policy

• Michele Klein, 2025 Advance Leadership Initiative Fellow, Harvard University; Representative to the United Nations, International Organization for Migration.
• Isabel Segovia Ospina, District Secretary of Education, Bogota, Colombia.

11:30am–11:45am / Break

11:45am–1:15pm / Panel 2: Solidarity as Practice

• Stephanie Canizales, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Faculty Director, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative.
• Marta Royo, Executive Director, Profamilia, Colombia.
• Maggie Sullivan, Instructor, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University.

1:30pm–2:30pm / Lunch

2:30pm–4:00pm / Panel 3: Solidarity as Negotiation

• Melissa Borja, Associate Professor, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, University of Michigan.
• Gloria Ciria Valdez-Gardea, General Academic Director, El Colegio de Sonora, Mexico.
• Muzaffar Chishti, Migration Policy Institute, NYU School of Law.

4:00pm–4:15pm / Tea

4:15pm–5:15pm / Open Discussion: Solidarity as a Contested Concept